A good audiovisual X-ray of a serial killer in Germany in the 70s: well set and very well performed by Jonas Dassler. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2021

There's no real arc in the story, it's just kind of all over the place with recurring themes.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 26, 2020

I find it very dull and I perceive at all times a lack of psychological substance that clings to the life of the disgusting protagonist. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 2, 2020

Whilst The Golden Glove is not overtly graphic, it feels almost as though it is - it implies the horrific, and where violence takes place, it is delivered with such hatred that it makes it seem all the more upsetting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2020

he Golden Glove was both revolting and remarkable in how it told a brutally true story of one man struggling with the illusions of inadequacy, alcoholism, and his need for violence in an attempt to gain control.

| May 29, 2020

I'd be happier if I'd never laid eyes on it.

| Feb 21, 2020

The Golden Glove seems to be stuck in time, a time that we will always recognize as the territory of expressionist nightmares. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 20, 2019

Jonas Dassler is disturbingly compelling as Honka, more disturbing for his making a shuffling nobody so magnetic.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 11, 2019

Although psychological substance runs slim, Akin renders most mainstream depictions of degenerate minds lighthearted.

| Oct 3, 2019

This subject matter is of the heaviest variety, and its central character not one you're supposed to like. But it is a story with immense artistic merit and a new angle of this subgenre with something important to say.

| Oct 2, 2019

The Golden Glove definitely isn't for everyone, and even when divorced from its more transgressive scenes, it's not exactly a pleasant viewing experience. But for those not repulsed, there's a lonely, human heart at its center.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 1, 2019

A bleak, depressing attempt to remove all glorification or justification from the serial killer subgenre.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 27, 2019

The content is disgusting. The backdrop against which this story unfolds is equally unappealing.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 27, 2019

The Golden Glove is a tremendous piece of work, an empathetic look at a pathetic wretch of a man and the trail of pain and chaos he left behind.

| Sep 26, 2019

Another in a long line of serial-killer dramas under the impression that it needs to be as ugly as its subject in order to be authentic, ultimately serving as further proof that verisimilitude isn't a virtue in and of itself.

| Sep 26, 2019

This long slog through the gutter, from the first brutal murder to [Fritz] Honka's grisly yet comedic arrest, is a tough stroll that it's hard to recommend.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 26, 2019

Filmmakers can have a tough time distinguishing themselves in the crowded serial-killer genre. For Fatih Akin, the director of "The Golden Glove," the solution seems to have been making his movie as vomitous as possible.

| Sep 26, 2019

I don't see how the film is of any value other than as a technical exercise (for filmmakers and actors, not murderers), but the craft of it is undeniable.

| Original Score: B | Sep 25, 2019

This is a film that will struggle to find an audience, unless there are people out there who thought Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was too tame.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 25, 2019

And while that opening scene is undoubtedly shocking, the cumulative effect of all this despair is ultimately even more unsettling.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 24, 2019